You had better take another look at those numbers. The vast, VAST majority are outside that elite group, frankly no different from the billionaires in
the U.S..

The numbers I've seen are around 4% at in that modern, trained, educated class. That is a big number taken from the whole, but the remainder? Rice
growers, manual labour...peons.

I know many are impressed when visiting China and see the technology and development in the cities they visit. When asked about outside the high-tech
zones and cities they pause and say they don't really know. It's not a surprise really. All we are exposed to are travelers, business and gov't
types. The rest lies below the surface.

One only has to look at the number of Chinese illegals transported to the U.S. in containers, for pete's sake, to know that all isn't that great in
the middle kingdom.....

Its not very crowded, about 90 thousand residents within a 3 to 5 KM radius which for China is not very populated and I believe they said it was
mainly an industrial area located far outside the main city with only a few full time residents. Not sure what any one would gain from an act of
sabotage here since most of the world certainly the US is pretty dependent on China for a majority of our junk to resale to the massive consumerism
here.

The district in which the warehouse was located is thinly populated. It is roughly 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the center of the city, a
sprawling metropolis of more than 13 million people. About 90,000 people live within a 5-kilometer radius of the blast site, the China Earthquake
Networks Center said.

Corruption and the massive amounts of chemicals stored on a daily basis in this area point to a nasty accident for which someone cutting corners or
worst breaking laws will be ultimately found responsible.

Given the Chinese system, gross incompetence, corruption, and negligence are also not at all beyond the realm of possibility, and Occam's Razor makes
them the most likely culprits.

I completely agree. People seem to see the Chinese as a finely orchestrated competitive system when they are so beyond corrupt they make the American
congress look angelic. Their economy simply benefitted from the economic environment of cheap goods make money for a while (that never lasts -
there's always some other desperate country willing to work cheaper).

The world media, however, played up "Chinese superiority" which is a complete croc.

originally posted by: mungbean
Take a close look at that crater. A guestimate would be 300 feet across ( a conservative guess ) and look at how friggen deep it is.
Is it possible for a surface blast to create such a crater ?

Sky news brought in an expert the day after the explosion, the guy reckoned the blast was 5 times bigger than the official story.....looks like it did
an incredible amount of damage!

Really? So paybacks for... all the cyber crime and infiltration? lets say... a warning. We..... set off an explosion at a warehouse? Even if it
was full of arms..... that's it? No damage to any high tech weaponry or infrastructure... just a warehouse full of ... explosives, chemicals,
rockets... huh. Pretty lame. No sub sunk, no research lab destroyed, no laser ruined.... lol. It was an accident due to the usual corruption
and lack of safety controls if you ask me. Improperly stored and handled without proper separation or temperature control, maybe some idiot smoking
where he shouldn't, a forklift hitting the wrong thing.... it was an act of stupidity, not sabotage.

It has shut down the worlds fastest supercomputer that China uses for space and military tech ( not sure for how long )
Disrupted oil and natural gas shipments.
Disrupted the Chinese export trade ( this port handled nearly 10 percent of all trade )
Only hundreds of metres away from what is touted as the new world financial district
This will cost china many billions even after insurance is paid.
I could think of so many more reasons why this would be an attack.
I suppose if I had not been obsessively studying geopolitics and history ever since 911 and just caught this on the MSM news without any independent
research - I too may dismiss it as just an accident. Something else much more sinister happened here !

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